Aquaculture diversity is universally considered one of the main aspects that make aquaculture different from land animal farming. A retrospective analysis on 68 years of FAO data on world aquaculture production shows that this aquaculture diversity study is the most powerful and exhaustive theoretical tool to investigate aquaculture origin, evolution and connections with the surrounding world. Aquaculture diversity investigated with Shannon index and Pareto principle shows its thermodynamic nature and reveals an unexpectable regularity that sheds new light on aquaculture, thus putting aquaculture in a perfect theoretical context together with fisheries. Species dominance, vicariance and redundancy must be considered for a functional description of aquaculture diversity. Aquaculture diversity is not biological diversity as an aquaculture species is not necessarily a biological species. Aquaculture diversity shows that aquaculture is a modern colonization of aquatic domain and it has recently reached its maximum value that is 428 ± 11 species, of which 29 ± 1 will produce 80% of global annual production. A temporal and geographical analysis of global aquaculture diversity reveals an original and hopefully enlightening vision of modern aquaculture and its perspectives.

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世界水产养殖多样性：起源和前景

水产养殖多样性被普遍认为是使水产养殖不同于陆地动物养殖的主要方面之一。对粮农组织 68 年世界水产养殖产量数据的回顾性分析表明，这项水产养殖多样性研究是调查水产养殖起源、演变和与周围世界的联系的最有力和最详尽的理论工具。用香农指数和帕累托原理研究的水产养殖多样性显示了其热力学性质并揭示了一种意想不到的规律性，为水产养殖提供了新的视角，从而将水产养殖与渔业置于一个完美的理论环境中。对水产养殖多样性的功能描述必须考虑物种优势、替代和冗余。水产养殖多样性不是生物多样性，因为水产养殖物种不一定是生物物种。水产养殖多样性表明，水产养殖是水产领域的现代殖民化，最近达到了最大值，即 428±11 种，其中 29±1 种将产生全球年产量的 80%。对全球水产养殖多样性的时间和地理分析揭示了现代水产养殖及其观点的原创性和希望具有启发性的愿景。